Reset Password
Reset Link Sent
| Blogs > redmustang91 > Wild Red Mustang thoughts! |
Trump and the Civil War
|
Trump and the Civil War Slavery caused the Civil War. Lincoln opposed the expansion of slavery and 13 Southern states whose economies were based on slavery seceded from the union. Lincoln and the North refused to let them go and the war cost over 650,000 lives. Andrew Jackson died in 1845, 16 years before the start of the Civil War. He did not see it coming and would have been on the side of slaveholders as he was from Tennesee and had over 150 slaves himself. Amy Greenberg: What most dismays -- okay, angers -- me about President Trump's statements on Andrew Jackson being able to prevent the Civil War is his profound historical ignorance. Ask any fifth grader, "Why did the Civil War happen?" That can give you an answer. That answer may vary depending on the section of the country where you ask the question, but he or she will have a clear answer. How dare Donald Trump state that, "People don't ask that question -- but why was there a Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?" Historians have been asking this since 1861. Elementary school classes debate it. One person who never asked this question, of course, was Andrew Jackson, because he died in 1845. Nor is there any evidence, whatsoever, that he "saw it coming." Indeed in 1844 he pushed to have the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Martin Van Buren, dropped from the ticket after Van Buren opposed annexing Texas out of a belief that it would exacerbate sectional tensions. Jackson preferred James K. Polk, an avid expansionist, and like himself, a slave holder. Had Jackson seen the Civil War coming, would he have deliberately made tensions between the North and South worse? Amy S. Greenberg is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History at Penn State University. An award-winning<b> author </font></b>of four books, including "A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the 1846 US Invasion of Mexico" (Vintage Books, 2013), |
|||
|
He is a willfully ignorant person. Sigh. Kk The observant make the best lovers, I may not do right, but I do write, I have bliss, joy, and happiness in my life, Kitkat Come check out my blog KItkat1415 check out this post by me Adventures In Body Grooming #39 April Topic Link: What Lies Beneath If April Showers Oh Bloody Hell What Kind Of Weather Turns Me On Bloggers Symposium 40
| ||
|
Trump is so ignorant that he would shame ignorant people.
|
Become a member to create a blog
